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Ἑστιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑστιάς Ἑστιάδος

Structure: Ἑστιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E(sti/a

Sense

  1. a Vestal virgin

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ τὴν ἐσθῆτα τὴν ἐκείνου ἔχων καὶ δακτυλίουσ βαρεῖσ ὅσον ἑκκαίδεκα ἐξημμένοσ τῶν δακτύλων ἐκέλευον ἑστίασίν τινα λαμπρὰν εὐτρεπισθῆναι ἐσ ὑποδοχὴν τῶν φίλων οἱ δέ, ὡσ ἐν ὀνείρῳ εἰκόσ, ἤδη παρῆσαν καὶ τὸ δεῖπνον εἰσεκομίζετο καὶ ὁ πότοσ συνεκροτεῖτο. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 12:4)
  • ὥστε οὐκ ἂν φθάνοισ ἑστιῶν ἡμᾶσ ἡδίστην ταύτην ἑστίασιν, ἧσ οὐκ οἶδα τισ ^ ἡδίων ἔμοιγε, καὶ μάλιστα ὅσῳ νήφοντεσ ἐν εἰρήνῃ καὶ ἀναιμωτὶ ἔξω βέλουσ ἑστιασόμεθα, εἴτε γέροντεσ ἐπαρῴνησάν τι παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον εἴτε νέοι, εἰπεῖν τε ὅσα ἥκιστα ἐχρῆν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀκράτου προαχθέντεσ καὶ πρᾶξαι. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 2:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐπῄνουν τὰ λεγόμενα, ὥστε καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑστίασιν τῶν γάμων παρεκάλουν αὐτόν. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 1 7:2)
  • ἢ τὰ περὶ τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδόσ σοι πιθανὰ ἔδοξεν, ὡσ ἐκείνη μεμψίμοιροσ οὖσα ἠγανάκτησεν οὐ κληθεῖσα ἐφ’ ἑστίασιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Οἰνέωσ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο σῦν τινα ὑπερφυᾶ καὶ ἀνυπόστατον τὴν ἀλκὴν ἐπαφῆκεν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν αὐτοῦ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 40:8)
  • εἰπόντοσ οὖν τινοσ ἔτι παρασκευάζεσθαι τοὺσ μαγείρουσ διὰ τὴν πολλὴν τῶν λόγων ἑστίασιν ἵνα μὴ ψυχρὰ παρατιθῶσιν οὐδεὶσ γὰρ ἂν φάγοι ψυχρῶν, ὁ Κύνουλκοσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 50 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a Vestal virgin

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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